Saturday, December 19, 2009

random saturday

I had such a hard time deciding what to have engraved on it, but in the end I chose something simple and sweet. I absolutely LOVE IT! She has all sorts of gorgeousjewelry and her blog is beautiful, too. If you need a last minute gift, you can order one of these (until tomorrow) and have it shipped to you by Christmas. I don't think you could go wrong. :) Thanks, Lisa, for such a beautiful necklace.

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This is today's quilt project.

Picking out matching thread colors was so much fun. I know, I'm such a geek. ;)

I've had this quilt basted and ready to quilt since before Thanksgiving, I think. I was stuck on how to quilt it. I browsed the modern quilting stitches pool on flickr this morning and then started playing with designs.

This is what I came up with....sort of a double swirl. I love this quilting!! It's fun and easy and looks a little fancy, too. I'm soooooo glad that I stepped out of my stippling comfort zone. I'm having a blast with new designs.

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Trisha left a comment yesterday wondering how many WIP's I have done for the Joy in the New Year challenge. I only have 6 out of 19 done. (Time is ticking fast!!!) I finished 8 quilts since the signups, but 2 were new projects, so they don't count. I really need to knock out a few more before this year is done. How are you doing on your WIP's?

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Thanks for all the sweet comments on my candy cane quilt. My "eeek!!!" was definitely a GOOD "eeek!". :) And to answer Jessica's question, the candy cane quilt is a new addition to my WIP pile. But I just HAD to, you know?

I really like your new quilt! I can see that was one that you were doing color patterns! Good job on getting things done! I don't think I am going to get much done....Christmas has come and no money left to buy quilting stuff! I hate it when that happens!

The new quilt looks GREAT! such fun colors. Your quilting is fabulous! The swirls are all the same size even! This is still on your home machine right? I am trying to follow the line and figure out the swirl.Smart girl on buying big spools of thread. I never seem to have enough of the right color.

I am new to machine quilting my quilts (tied them in the past.) I love the way the quilting looks but so far am just stitch in the ditch or diagonals. I'd love to give stippling a try. Maybe on the doll quilt I'm making for my daughter. I never thought of changing out the thread color to match the different fabrics. Love it! That would be so fun to choose :) Loving your blog! Merry Christmas!

Lisa's work keeps popping up on my radar. I am going to have to put one of those on my wish list.

I'm with you on the Joy challenge. I have made quite a bit of progress, finishing 4 1/2 of my 8 BUT, I've started numerous knitting projects and I have, have, have to make a quilt between now and Christmas eve for a guest. Yikes! One square at a time!

looks good lady! I had key tags done last year for Christmas with all our names on it,one for each of us... they were so nice to have... the necklace is lovely!Happy sewing! were getting SNOW! Starting to feel like MN around here instead of NY!

Cute necklace! and once again, a beautifulk quilt your are working on. Your quilting pattern looks perfect, too! I signe dup for the challenge with 7 WIPs, I've finished 2, and am currently in the process of quilting 2 more, but there have been a few other projects thrown into the middle, just like you!

I love Lisa Leonard's goodies and treasure the necklace I had made several years ago with my girls' initials. I could really use another one...:) That quilt is fabulous and I love the quilting you have chosen!

Thanks for asking . . . I'm doing OK with the UFOs. Today I finished #6 of 9. Have two at the LA quilter which she will get back to me before New Years. So need to focus on ONE more. . .Let's see, there's a Christmas set of blocks from 2 years ago. . . supposed to be for a grandchild. . . can I get that done by Monday night?

Crazy that you received a Lisa Leonard necklace. Lisa is one of my good friend, our children are the same ages and I've taught them in their sunday school classes. Wow! She is getting famous with all this jewelry making!! Enjoy her beautiful work. :)

Gosh, I haven't finished one of the WIP's I put down for the challenge, I'm halfway through cutting for one of them, but I think aside from a miracle of having 36 hours in a day for a week, I just won't make it!!!

Gorgeous work. When I saw it I thought it was a table quilt with each of the blocks intended as placemats. Hope it's not (just speaking from experience)..Beautiful necklace. Snowed in with almost 2 feet on Eastern Long Island...will definitely check out Lisa's blog.

The double swirl is my favorite machine quilting pattern...but I call it "olives" b/c the first time I used it was for a quilt for my mom. While I was quilting I was thinking of fond childhood memories of holidays where we thought the holes in the olives were for the sole purpose of wearing them on our fingers before we ate them.

Thanks for sharing the link for the necklace lady--until tonight, i still hadn't picked out a present for my mother in law. Now I can mark that off the list and I think she will really like the custom necklace-yah!

Oooh yum! I love the process of matching thread to a quilt :-) Gives me a reason to go to the fabric store! ...and Buy MORE thread than I need, haha.lets see... WIPS - I had 8 that I fessed up to and I'm confident I'll have 7 of them done by 1/1/10. The 8th is a quilt that I've only cut the fabric for, nothing else done! Maybe I'll pull an all-nighter and get-r-done! (yeah right) Cheers!

I love the double swirl. I just finished making your stacked coins baby quilt. Can you share with us some tips on how you did the double swirl. I have reviewed your free motion quilting tutorial. It is actually how I learned to free motion quilt. But I am ready to try new designs now. Did you mark your fabric first or do it free hand. Thanks.

You are a great motivator! I have two quilts that I am working on currently and one I am hand quilting. So that makes 3. :o)I am so excited to also own one of Lisa's necklaces. I just received it for Christmas and LOVE it. I even blogged about it today. :o)Sincerely ~ Tricia Anne

I giggled as I saw the pendant, my brother in law and his wife are Kevin and Amanda and are expecting twins in May. Just finished their baby quilts if you want to come by and visit my blog. Under posting about twins... Fun blog you have to share!

You are a great motivator! I have two quilts that I am working on currently and one I am hand quilting. So that makes 3. :o)I am so excited to also own one of Lisa's necklaces. I just received it for Christmas and LOVE it. I even blogged about it today. :o)Sincerely ~ Tricia Anne